Midway Arcade Treasures 2

by Midwest Records

Product Features

• Run Xybots through deadly mazes, wander with the Wizard of Wor and chop down trees in Timber
• Exciting battle action with Total Carnage, Spy Hunter II and Rampage World Tour
• Head-to-head fighting action in Primal Rage, Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat 3
• Defeat wave after wave of monsters in Gauntlet II, or clean up the street by obliterating junkies with NARC
• Test drive a high-powered sports car Hard Drivin' -- or guide Kapt. Krooz'r into the mothership while shooting enemies

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002KQ73W
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 11, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,732 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 brings together the hit games of the arcade, and delivers them to your Xbox! Great gaming and classic action combine in one collection. Play robot football in Cyberball 2072, race F-1 cars in Championship Sprint and go one-on-one on the ball courts with Arch Rivals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The price makes this collection of almost-perfect games even better., August 31, 2005

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Miketheratguy (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

THE SHORT: The ridiculously cheap price is worth spending on some of these games on their own, let alone in a double digit package. But while most of the games run great, there are some slight issues here and there that make some of these games not quite arcade-perfect.

THE LONG: I love Mortal Kombat II. Adore it. I always have, and though the SNES version was great in 1994, no console has ever had an accurate version of it. That's why this was an exciting release- it promised arcade accurate versions of this game as well as a bunch of other good ones. And if you're just thinking about getting this now, then you didn't have to go through the debacle of having the original Mortal Kombat removed from the package and thrown onto the more cost-prohibitive MK: Deception.

So I checked out message boards and waited for the game, and once it came out and I chatted with others, I noticed a disturbing trend: no one console had a release of this collection that was entirely flawless. The PS2 supposedly had trouble with, I believe, Hard Drivin', and the Gamecube had sound problems or something. The Xbox version was supposed to be flawed in some way too, but I honestly can't remember what that was supposed to have been. All I know is that I was a devoted MKII fan to notice some fanboyish inaccuracies. I won't go into them all here, and while there aren't a lot they are noticeable: stuff like flickering shadows when a character jumps, and screams that go on past death when a character lands in the Pit, etc.

But for every thing the programmers somehow messed up, there are ten it gets right. MKII, as with all others on the disc except for the somewhat muffled MK3, has sound so crisp I'd forgotten how much better it was than past console offerings. The graphics are sharp and the colors bold, and the animation is fluid and correct to how I recall it. Nothing is left out, not even something that a great deal of players never knew about MKII: The computer fights more lazily and gets worked into patterns more easily when using controller 2. This strange, small trick, as well as others such as Shang Tsung's Sub Zero freeze/ fatality skin glitch, were emulated perfectly.

But that's the thing- there are still disappointments despite these best intentions. In making the game, someone neglected to re-map the start button. In MKII, pressing start was part of two tricks- selecting a random fighter and accessing hidden character Smoke, but since pressing start in this collection brings up the main pause menu, start is rendered obsolete in-game so apparently these details are inaccessible. That's probably the biggest mistake, and while it doesn't make the package suck, it'd definitely worth mentioning.

Otherwise, the collection is pretty fine. Most of these games are well suited to the Xbox or PS2 controller's simple layout (The GC controller is absurd for the fighting games) and more importantly, the rest of the games seem about the same as I remember them in the arcade. Like with me and MKII, it would take a devoted veteran to notice any changed details that aren't egregious. More so than the original Midway Treasures, this disc has some great titles- 90's classics such as Narc, Primal Rage, Total Carnage, and of course MKII and 3 are on a disc that by this point costs less than twenty bucks. At that price, imperfections and all, it's hard to pass up on such a modern collection of proven greats.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Arcade Heaven, November 22, 2004

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A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

Hey, I still play the first Arcade Treasures all the time. So I was positively delighted to learn of this incredible new collection.

Arcade Treasures 2 is a true sequel, in a sense, in that most of the games are from the late 80's and early 90's. There are a few exception to this, such as Wizard of Wor and Timber. Anyway, these later games are typically more complex and HARDER than the games on the first collection. This is a good thing, because it will likely take you awhile to master them. Which makes this disc not only a fun-filled blast of nostalgia, but ensures re-playability for quite some time. And that's why I find myself rating Volume 2 higher than the first. Sure, the previous disc arguably has more true "classic" titles. But I think I'll be spending more time with this one.

Favorite games: Mortal Kombat 2 & 3 (now if only I could remember how to do all those fatalities...); NARC (best 2-player co-op action game ever); Wizard of Wor (for the funky early-80's speech synthesis); Total Carnage (truth in advertising...this game could cause a freakin' panic attack); Timber (I admit, I wasn't familiar with this one, but it's really charming and fun).

I only hope other game companies will realize there is still a market out there for retro coin-op games (Nintendo, are you listening?) and give us more TREASURES, please!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good trip down memory lane -great if you like fighting games, October 16, 2004

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Steve Biroschik (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

I'm not a big fan of fighting games, but there are some classics on here like Mortal Kombat 2 & 3.

The games that make it for me are Timber, Cyberball, Hard Drivin', and Wizard Of Wor. I'd pay $20 just for those 3... ;-)

The disc has 20 games, so for a buck a game you can't go wrong.